The players are now on a 10-minute break at the end of Level 8.
Sander Lylloff has gone from chip leader to being out in the first two levels of today. He just lost two pots in succession to Raul Mestre and Peter Gould respectively, to leave him with 275 in chips which he got in good with versus . But the board came down to knock out the Barcelona EPT winner.
Julian Thew went for a pre-tournament curry with Matt Tyler before play started today. When I asked how he got up to 61,000 chips, "curry power" was the answer. He has been taking a lot of small-to-medium pots to double his stack and give himself a shot of following his recent GUKPT win with an EPT one.
Unfortunately, it has not worked so well for Matt as he has dropped to 4,900.
Surinder Sunar is in a much more buoyant mood today. This is because he has tripled up during the first level, and now has 21,800 in chips. The way he was playing yesterday, that could be enough to final!
With a little over 50 minutes played, we are already down to 133 players. The short stacks are now taking chances as the blinds have increased and we are seeing races happen every few hands.
Peter Gould just won one with versus Adrian Koy's , the board coming to knock out Koy.
Anton Alleman's was good against fellow Swiss player Armin Stocker's for a double-up to 26,000.